Pakistan, a country which was found with a vision to lead the world but this look like a dream now. A big thanks to our leaders, judiciary, army and bureaucracy, Pakistani’s now are considered as corrupt, terrorist, bank erupts, uneducated across the globe. People who are leading these departments are considered to be the leader of our country but irony is that they never adopt any progressive approach in the development of Pakistan. Instead the looted our country badly and increases their assets.
Anyway, this is another topic, here we are going to discus some most controversial Pakistani personalities. Pakistani politicians do not rise above their partisan interests and stay in the news by raising controversies. In the same ways other professional like sports star, actors, TV actors etc. also do something controversial for popularity and fame.
Here are the personalities of the Pakistan that evoked shock, scorn, singers, and were a subject of satire. This list is not including everything, but give you a glimpse of their character. Checkout the list top 10 controversial persons of Pakistan.
10. Rabi Pirzada
Pakistani singer and actress Rabi Pirzada lands in major controversy just after a video featuring her, dancing naked has gone viral on 1st Nov 2019.
Sources claim it has to be Rabi’s boyfriend who uploaded a ‘private’ video on social media and made it go viral. The leaked videos, as well as a partially nude picture, went viral on social media a day after the singer criticised DG ISPR Asif Ghafoor for justifying Neelam Muneer’s item song.
Rabi is the daughter of a former Pakistani army officer, Major Humayun Pirzada.
9. Meera.
Meera has always loved to drag herself in the news. She talks in a language better known as scandal. Pakistani social media blasted against her when she migrated to Bollywood where she signed and acted in Bollywood movies and found her in the bold kissing scenes. She also received death threats in response to her kissing scenes with co-star Ashmit Patel.
8. Najam Sethi.
Najam Sethi is a journalist, editor, and media personality and a news analyst at Geo News. He is extremely criticized by social media of Pakistan because of his secular ideology and and friendly trend towards India. According to politicians.pk, he is Qadiani and has anti-Pakistan ideology. According to Najam Sethi the 1965 war was lost by Pakistan. He also blamed responsible for the 2013 election rigging in Punjab province as he was nominated caretaker CM of Punjab by Muslim League N.
7. Zaid Hamid.
Zaid Hamid, is a Pakistani political commentator, a so called jihadist scholar, preaching extreamisim in youth, showing islam is the only religion to kill non muslims, linked with Yousaf Kazab and jewes. A number of Pakistani journalists, writers and Islamic scholars have criticized Hamid and have described his views on politics and security as conspiracy theories. On September 17th 2013 a Karachi court issued an arrest warrant for Zaid Hami, for fabricating misleading propaganda against Geo News/Jang Group’s — ‘Aman Ki Asha’ and MKRF programme ‘Zara Sochiye.
6. Hamid Mir.
Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist, news anchor, terrorism expert, and security analyst. He become a controversial figure because of his links with Taliban. He was criticized by Pakistani social media because they considering him as a RAW agent. He is also criticized because he did not arrange any program about the Kashmir issue still now. Zaid Hamid claimed that he is a CIA agent. Pakistani social media claims that he is the son of Waris Mir who was the biggest traitor of Pakistan in 1971.
5. Altaf Hussain.
Pakistan’s biggest Mafia Don, founder of Karachi based political party MQM, commonly known as Altaf Bhai. A big controversial figure, critics claim that Altaf Hussain and his party showed a readiness to use violence to fight for power. He and his party has long been accused of having an illegal armed wing intimately involved in Karachi’s criminal economy of drugs, extortion and land theft. Imran Khan accused him of being directly involved in the murder of his party leader Zahra Shahid Hussain. Altaf Bhai currently faces allegations of murder of his party leader Dr Imran Farooq, money laundering and hate speech, the case is under investigation by the Scotland Yard. BBC News called Hussain a ‘Pakistans most divisive politicians’.
4. Veena Malik.
Pakistan’s Controversy Queen, Veena Malik has been in news for quite a long now. From getting scandalized with Pakistani cricketer Asif, her Bigg Boss housemate Ashmit Patel, to giving body massages on international TV, she has done it all. Veena Malik has been criticized for her nude photo shoots in 2001, and yet again, she posed topless for an Indian magazine FHM. Oh! And how can we forget her latest item number ‘The Bomb Channo’ in which she’s accused to copy Sheila! and in Zidagi 50-50, once again his hot and bold avatar being a sex worker.
Known by Controversy Queen, Veena Malik is a Pakistani actress, model and comedienne. Over a span of ten years, she has worked with news channels and in movies.
Controversy resulted in Pakistan over a nude image of Malik on the cover of FHM magazine India edition in which she had “ISI” written on her upper arm. Malik says she was topless but did not pose completely nude, and has sued the magazine over the images.
In 2012 she was ranked at No. 26 on FHM India’s “100 sexiest women list” which included Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Shilpa Shetty, Poonam Pandey and Sonam Kapoor.
3. Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri
Dr. Tahir-ul – Qadri has been a controversial character ever-since he gained popularity back in 90’s, first that for a fake attack story and then countless revelations that Sheikh-ul-Islam came up with time to time.
He become one of the most controversial persons of Pakistan, when he made a claim some 15-20 years ago that he had the vision of Prophet (S.A.W) and he claimed that Prophet (S.W.A) was angry from the ulema and people of Pakistan and he was returning to Madina from Pakistan.
And then he went for “research” purposes, according to some he has done a great damage to the religion Islam during the period. Aftre return to Pakistan, here he run an NPO namely ‘Minhaj-ul-Qura’n’ which has many donors worldwide and this institution provides both religious and worldly education to students.
An now on 21 December 2012, he back Pakistan with new agenda which create again a lot of controversy. Pakistani’s witnessed massive TV campaign about Qadri’s return and message with posters and banners well placed in all the places in major cities. Now the question arises, who is supporting Qadri? Who sponsored his campaign and bearing all other expenses? Political parties like MQM formally and PTI informally ‘embracing’ Qadri’s version and columnists like Hassan Nisar praising Qadri as if he’s long-waited Imam-Mehdi.
2. Malik Riaz Hussain
Malik Riaz is a Pakistani business tycoon and founder/chairman of Bahria Town, which is Asia’s largest private real estate developers. He is from a poor family, due to financial crises in his family he was forced to start working as a clerical staff at the age of 19. Today he is Pakistan’s Twelfth Richest Man with over $800+ million worth of assets.
Malik Riaz is also the main accused of the DHA valley Islamabad scam in which his company collected tens of billions of rupees (USD 500–700 million) from 67000 people of Pakistan from middle and lower middle classes. After four years it was revealed that Malik Riaz and his company acquired land for only 10000 people. Chief Justice of Pakistan took suo moto notice of the issue and a criminal case against Malik Riaz is underway since May 2012.
1. Aamir Liaqat Hussain.
So called Islamic scholar, Aamir Liaquat Hussain is top the list of most controversial Pakistani personalities. There was a time, he was ruling the hearts of millions with his wit and scholarly religious debates. But the real character of his personality exposed when his behind the screen video leaked online. Where he was caught using various profanities on the set of his show. In the same video, he is also shown taking a rape related question lightly, mocking his religious guests, spontaneously singing Indian tunes, and using lewd hand gestures while referring to Bollywood rape scenes. Not only that, but recently his PHD degree has also been declared fake.